OC is committed to your success and personal enrichment. Take classes, earn certificates or two-year degrees, apply to one of OC's four-year programs, or work with one of the college's university partners.

OC enriches our diverse communities through quality education and student support. With three campuses spanning Kitsap and Mason counties, OC provides the options to serve these areas and every point in between.

OC is committed to your success and personal enrichment. Take classes, earn certificates or two-year degrees, apply to one of OC's four-year programs, or work with one of the college's university partners.

OC enriches our diverse communities through quality education and student support. With three campuses spanning Kitsap and Mason counties, OC provides the options to serve these areas and every point in between.

Interview

In fairytales, we hear stories about the hero overcoming the odds and still prevailing. In her own life, Jadin Left is one of these heroes as she overcame the struggles that she has faced over time. Not only has she overcome a major injury that has left her wearing a knee brace whenever she plays softball, she also overcame a position switch that she wasn't prepared for.

If there’s one thing that Ben Koler has been certain about throughout his life, it's that he wants to play baseball. Ben has played since he was 6-years-old, never missing a year. “I played through middle school and high school, even in the summertime. I just focused on baseball,” Ben said. While his journey hasn't been the smoothest, he feels that his long-term dedication to the sport has paid off.

Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been lost, and continue to tumble across the floor of the body of water it was lost in. As these nets move through the water they continue to trap fish, which end up suffocating and dying. The dead fish attract other wildlife which are looking for an easy meal, such as other fish, crabs, even birds and seals. When they approach the fish in the nets these critters also get entangled, and meet their end trapped.

In the Pacific Ocean, there is a garbage patch spanning 617,763 square miles. To put that into perspective, that’s three times larger than France, or relatively two times the size of Texas. Daily, the water temperature is rising, glaciers are melting, more and more pollutants are added to the cesspool of waste, and marine animal are species becoming extinct, falling victim to our harsh industrialization. To anyone, especially the upcoming generations of youth who get to look forward to the rapid deterioration of the most abundant and necessary natural resource, that is alarming.

Kaitlyn Paller is only in her 3rd year of doing track and field and already she is breaking records. During the first meet of the season, Kaitlyn broke the Olympic College women's hammer throw of 128 ft by throwing 144 ft. This new record didn't stay long though, because at a later meet, Kaitlyn proceeded to break her own record setting a whole new high at 158 ft for the Olympic College women's hammer throw. When asked how she felt about breaking her own record, Kaitlyn said that she felt “very accomplished because it took a lot of hard work to get where [she is] right now”.

When it comes to motivation, Colton Paller says there's nothing that puts “a fire in [his] belly” like losing. “I love to win,” he said. “Losing definitely makes me mad.” Not only does this hate regarding loss explain his competitiveness, but it also is an important part of what drives Colton in his life.